2004-03-29 Gisle Aas
Release 3.01
By compiling the extension with PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT we can
make it slightly faster on a threaded perl. No change on a
regular perl. Patch provided by Beau E. Cox .
Fixed missing ";" with assert. Patch provided by
Brendan O'Dea .
2004-01-14 Gisle Aas
Release 3.00
Drop the pure Perl implementations of the encoders and
decoders. They are bloat that hides real problems in
the XS implementations. I will re-release them separately
in the new MIME-Base64-Perl distribution.
The 'gcc -Wall' fix in 2.22 broke support for perl5.005,
as the isXDIGIT() macro is not available in that perl.
This problem has now been fixed.
2004-01-08 Gisle Aas
Release 2.23
Documentation fixes by Paul Croome .
2004-01-08 Gisle Aas
Release 2.22
Fix 'gcc -Wall' complaints.
2003-10-09 Gisle Aas
Release 2.21
Documentation tweaks.
Don't rely on SvEND(sv) == '\0' as discussed in the perl5-porters
mailing list thread that starts with
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-10/msg00258.html
Should now pass test suite even without XS support.
Perl v5.005 or better is now required.
2003-05-13 Gisle Aas
Release 2.20
decode_qp() recognize soft whitespace when there is whitespace
between the '=' and the '\n'.
2003-05-13 Gisle Aas
Release 2.19
decode_qp() did eat up all trailing whitespace in the string decoded.
Only whitespace in front of "\n" should go.
Win32 fix for t/warn.t by Reini Urban .
2003-03-09 Gisle Aas
Release 2.18
Fix up INSTALLDIRS for perl-5.8 and newer.
2003-03-09 Gisle Aas
Release 2.17
Make it reliable to disable base64 decoding warnings by
resetting $^W in recent perls. Would really like to be
able to do real lexical warnings but the current mechanism
does not seems suitable for XS code.
Passing "" as $eol to encode_qp() disable soft line
breaks as well.
Sync up with changes in bleadperl:
- safer patchlevel.h include
- bad cast
2003-01-05 Gisle Aas
Release 2.16
Fixed the encode_qp() line breaking code. It sometimes
made lines longer than 76 chars and it could even get into
an infinite loop on certain inputs.
2003-01-03 Gisle Aas
Release 2.15
Fixed the XS based decode_qp() for strings where a =XX
sequence was followed by digits.
Faster encode_qp() for long strings with lots of chars
that need escaping.
The old_decode_base64() function introduced in 2.13
was returning undef for empty input on olders perls.
This problem has been fixed.
2003-01-01 Gisle Aas
Release 2.14
MIME::QuotedPrint functions now also implemented using XS
which make them faster. 2-3 times faster when encoding line by
line and as much as 200 times faster on long binary input. There
is probably some breakage on non-ASCII systems from this.
The encode_qp() function now takes an $eol argument in the
same way as encode_base64() does.
Slight change in behaviour: the decode_qp() function now turns
\r\n terminated lines into \n terminated lines. This makes is
more likely that encode_qp(decode_qp()) round-trip properly.
Included {en,de}code-{base64,qp} utility scripts.
2002-12-27 Gisle Aas
Release 2.13
Sync up with bleadperl:
- Documentation update
- EBCDIC support
- Whitespace tweaks
- Improved Unicode support
- Test suite tweaks
Improved version of the old_{en,de}code_base64 functions
contributed by Paul Szabo .
2001-02-23 Gisle Aas
Release 2.12
Speed up pure perl base64 encoder/decoder by using join/map instead
of while loop. Contributed by Arno Beckmann
Doc update contributed by Jerrad Pierce
Downgrade UTF8 strings before starting to encode.
1999-02-27 Gisle Aas
Release 2.11
Fixed bogus "Premature end of base64 data" warning. Bug spotted
by Dwayne Jacques Fontenot.
Workaround for Redhat shipping trial releases of perl.
1998-12-18 Gisle Aas
Release 2.10
A tweak that should make compilation with some old perl5.00[23]
perls better.
A cast that make some compilers more happy.
1998-11-13 Gisle Aas
Release 2.09
The 2.08 release did not compile with perl5.005_53, because
all simple globals now need to be prefixed with "PL_".
1998-10-22 Gisle Aas
Release 2.08
Found another tweak to speed up decode_base64() with another 3%.
Improved MIME::Base64 documentation a little.
1998-10-21 Gisle Aas
Release 2.07
Faster and smarter C implementation of the decode_base64()
function. The new decode_base64() was 25% faster when tested
on Linux, i586, gcc -O2.
1998-07-15 Gisle Aas
Release 2.06
The decode_base64() implemented in pure perl will only carp
(not croak) if length of data to decode is not a multiple 4. This
actually made 'make test' fail after 'rm Base64.xs'.
1998-01-27 Gisle Aas
Release 2.05
The decode_base64() would previously allocate a too short buffer for the
result string when the trailing "==" padding was missing in the string to
be decoded.
The encode_base64() now allocate one byte less space in the result
strings returned.
1997-12-02 Gisle Aas
Release 2.04
Documentation expanded a bit.
1997-07-10 Gisle Aas
Release 2.03
Decode_base64() doesn't croak on premature ended data any more.
A warning is generated instead if running under -w.
1997-06-27 Gisle Aas
Release 2.02
QuotedPrint fix by Roderick Schertler :
- Long lines were not broken unless they're at the beginning
of the text
- Lines near but not over 76 chars were broken when they
shouldn't be
1997-06-13 Gisle Aas
Release 2.01
Base64.xs: Avoid type convertion warnings with some compilers
Minor documentation updates
1997-04-24 Gisle Aas
Release 2.00, based on libwww-perl-5.08.